Barnes Building, Fraternal hall and office building in Belltown, Seattle, United States

The Barnes Building at 2320-2322 1st Avenue is a four-story brick and basement structure designed by William E. Boone with George Meeker in a rusticated Victorian style. Its first floor held a single retail space, the second a large rear assembly hall with front offices, and the upper floors the Odd Fellows' meeting rooms and divided offices. It is the earliest known surviving work of Boone and Meeker.

Built in 1890 shortly after Seattle's great fire, the building originally served as the Odd Fellows' Block with offices and meeting rooms. During the early 20th century it functioned as a center for fraternal societies before housing various commercial and cultural tenants.

The building's names track its users: Odd Fellows' Block, Masonic Temple from 1909 to 1915, then Ingram Hall. In Ingram Hall years, proprietor Atwill D. Miller ran Cap's Old Time Dance above his ground-floor beer parlor, The Rheine, opened soon after Prohibition's repeal. In the 1970s the Seattle Dance Center, opened by the First Chamber Dance Company, Seattle's first resident professional ballet company, occupied the building.

The building stands at 2320-2322 1st Avenue in Belltown, on the block south of where the Odd Fellows' earlier wooden hall once stood. Look for the painted "Ballroom Dancing" sign on the rear wall, best seen from the side away from 1st Avenue. The ground floor has housed bars in recent years, so the street-level frontage changes with tenants.

A painted sign on the building's back wall still advertises ballroom dancing, an echo from when such events were regularly held here. This nearly forgotten advertisement tells of past recreational habits and is a detail many visitors overlook.